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THE following letter from Mr. Stanley to Tippoo Tib has been received in Brussels:—“Boma of Banalya-Murenia, August 17, to the Sheik Hamed Ben Mahomed [Tippoo Tib] from his good friend, Henry Stanley. Many salaams to you. I hope you are in good health, as I am, and that you Have remained in good health since I left the Congo. I have many things to say to you but I hope I shall see you face to face before many days. I reached this place this morning with 130 Wangwana, and three soldiers and sixty-six natives belonging to Emin Pasha. This is now the eighty-second day since we left Emin Pasha on the Nyanza, and we have only lost three men all the way. Two of them were drowned, and the other ran away. I found the white men whom I was looking for. Emin Pasha was quite well, and the other white man, Casati, was quite well also. Emin has ivory in abundance, cattle by thousands, and sheep, goats, fowls, and food of all kinds. We found him to be a very good and kind man. He gave numbers of things to all our white and black men, and his liberality could not be exceeded. His soldiers blessed our black men for their kindness in coming so far to show them the way, and many of them were ready to follow me at once out of the country. But I asked them to stay quiet a few months that I might go back and fetch the other men and goods I had left at Yambunga, and they prayed to God that he would give me the strength to finish my work. May their prayer be heard. And now, my friend, what are you going to do? We have gone the road twice over. We know where it is bad and where it is good, where there is plenty of food and where there is none, where all the camps are and where we shall sleep and rest. I am waiting to hear your words. If you go with me it is well. If you do not go it is well. I leave it to you. I will stay here ten days, and then I go on slowly. I move from here to a big island two hours' march from here, and above this place there are plenty of houses and plenty of food for the men. Whatever you have to say to me my ears will be open with a good heart, as it has always been towards you. Therefore if you come, come quickly; for on the eleventh morning from this I shall move on. All my white men are well; but I left them all behind, except my servant William, who is with me.—(Signed) STANLEY.' This letter, which was brought by a messenger to Stanley Falls, reached Brussels by post on Tuesday evening, and is the only one from Mr. Stanley which has reached the coast. The remainder of the letters brought by the messenger remain at Stanley Falls, and will arrive in Europe two or three months hence.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 39, 283 (1889). https://doi.org/10.1038/039283b0
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